As white supremacists and neo-Nazis try to infest our communities with hate, it is important to contest their revisionist history. We should take down their symbols, but also examine the untruths taught in our schools about the Civil War.

A renegotiated NAFTA that subordinates the needs of workers will meet the fate of the now-dead Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal. The humans in the United States, Canada and Mexico won’t be tricked or trickled down on again.

Movements, not politicians, are driving debate within the Democratic Party. The outcome is far from clear, but bemoaning this battle is like decrying the rising of the sun. People are engaged, and the demand for change is real.

Supremacists came to Charlottesville because they’re afraid of change - so afraid, they’re willing to terrorize the rest of us to prevent it. Here's what we can do now to help dismantle racism in Virginia and beyond.

People’s organizations, armed with the peaceful power of the vote, can take back statehouses in Virginia and all across the country, reversing the agenda of helmeted cowards and their allies. Wouldn’t that be the sweetest revenge?

There are only two sides here: Right and wrong. Murderer and victim. Hatred and love. When it really matters, the president of the United States refuses to call terror by its name, or pick a side. But we can.

Betsy DeVos says she supports "great public schools," but her actions show her hypocrisy. She undermines public options, yet favors schools owned by her friends. What she really wants is to tilt the playing field toward private ownership.

Is the anti-Trump resistance evolving into a movement that produces leaders with a mandate to govern with a progressive, grassroots-based agenda? We are seeing evidence that the answer will be a resounding "yes."

It was a big day on Long Island. President Donald Trump was jetting in for a victory lap on health care and some “tough talk” about immigration. Easy, right? Sorry, Donald. Things didn’t work out quite the way you expected!

Americans: The Submissive Class

Americans seem to be a submissive lot, many of whom are content to accept a lower class status. To encourage conformance, the patrician class seems willing to allow just enough wealth to trickle down to maintain a compliant lower class; just enough so most can eat and shelter and cloth themselves adequately, but not more; enough to survive to work another day in the service of their betters.

The patrician class has always known that they cannot profit without workers, those they refer to as “the small people.” The small people must be given necessities sufficient to survive at least through their useful working years. The small people are themselves a resource whose value is to be extracted until exhausted and then discarded as a waste product.

The necessities bestowed by the wealthy need not be above a subsistence level and they exclude non-essentials such as health care. Funds for retirement, slowly becoming an outmoded 20th century idea, are out of the question.

America is becoming a country with an economic dividing line in the middle. Half will live above the line and do well. The other half will wait on the tables of their betters and clean up after them.

The divide will work on behalf of the patrician class. The half who live above the line will do all in their power to maintain their status and oppose all efforts on the part of the small people to improve their lot or to resist.

Depicted below in The Potato Eaters by Van Gogh is the grim life of a peasant, a life that exists unnecessarily in much of the Third World today and may be returning to the developed countries of the West.